Which queen led the rebellion at Kittur against the East India Company in 1824?

The correct answer is A, Rani Chennamma of Kittur in present-day Karnataka. When the Company refused to recognise her adopted son as heir and moved to annex the state, she took up arms in 1824, defeated the first British force sent against her and was captured in the second attack; her commander Sangolli Rayanna continued the struggle. B is wrong because Rani Avantibai of Ramgarh fought in the revolt of 1857, more than thirty years later. C is wrong because Rani Durgavati of Garha-Katanga fought the Mughal general Asaf Khan in 1564. D is wrong because Rani Velu Nachiyar of Sivaganga fought the Company in the late eighteenth century, in the period of the Poligar struggles, and not at Kittur. Rani Chennamma was imprisoned at Bailhongal, where she died in 1829, and her resistance is remembered in Karnataka as one of the earliest armed challenges to the Company's refusal to accept adopted heirs.